Guild Wars 2

Both of these daggers are WvW exotic Invader’s stats with Flame skin applied. Completely identical, even to their upgrade (crest of the soldier). Character is a lvl80 necromancer; IIRC the skins are WvW exotic chest, Orr temple exotic boots, AC pants, and molten gauntlets. Helm/shoulder hidden.

For some reason, the one on the right is inexplicably larger. Zoomed in you should be able to see that even though the character’s right leg is further back, the handle reaches as far as that of the left dagger, and the blade reaches further back by quite a way. They appear to be at the same height on the body as well. When they’re wielded it’s a bit harder to tell because the character’s hands move around, so I’m not sure if they both change to the same size or not.

Worth noting also: I was previewing the Jade pistol a few days ago, and noticed that it was quite noticeably larger when I checked ‘wield’ (right hand) as opposed to leaving it stowed (left side). I thought at the time it was a bug with the preview, but it seems a weapon (stowed?) on your left side will actually shrink.

From what I could tell, the weapon on the right side of the body was the correct size whether it was the main-hand (wielded) or the off-hand (stowed). I’m not sure however if the weapon on the left side of the body is always smaller, or only when it’s the stowed main-hander.

Also I think when I previewed the pistol I may actually have been on a lvl 1 human mesmer. I’m going to sleep now but I’ll try to remember to check tomorrow whether it affects that as well, or only charr characters.

Okay no, the mesmer seems okay (tested with dual-swords). I don’t have other humans to test with though (someone in one of nick’s threads mentioned it was an issue for their elementalist?) so I’m not sure if it might affect other human classes.

I’m also pretty sure now this only affects a stowed main-hand weapon. When you wield it, it grows to its proper size, and when stowed it shrinks again. The off-hand seems okay regardless.

Another update:

Applied two zenith skins to swords on the human mesmer. When I equipped them, in the gear/dye screen the mainhand one looks shrunken, but as far as I can tell they both appear the correct size in practice.

I see this problem on all Charr characters.. (did some testing on other classes.. couldnt find any problems.. but i am not sure of this for all) i think its because they fixed a clipping problem for the Charr class.. but they did it only on the main-hand (indeed only in stowed) but they didnt do it for the off-hand..

Also i think the main-hand weapon is WAY too small compared to the off-hand.
They did a bit too much to fix the clipping main hand… (and none for off-hand).

On closer inspection with a Charr engineer, I think the left-side weapon may be smaller when drawn as well. It’s harder to tell because they wave the things all over the sodding place, and it might not be as severe, but it seemed noticeable with pistols. I’ll try to add a screenshot later today.

First image shows the height/angle I was going for. It’s the closest thing to an easy comparison without trying out different skill animations until they hold them together.

Second image in the same place shows the pistol on the character’s left side appears slightly smaller, despite their holding them around the same height as seen in the first picture.

Third image I took when I first noticed it. Very obvious on this background.